Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Grst, chickens next, pigs third and old
clothes fourth.
Forty years ago there was but once
yacht club in the United States. To-day
we have eighty clubs and two thousands
six hundred and twenty-one yachts.
"A young man named Darling liveso
in BriXton, and when any one calls him
in the street every young lady near
bushes and looks around, saying: Ssh,
sh!''
"A man who dresses too grandly. or
too absurdly. or too shabbily, has some
| mental oddity, or insanity, or mean
ness. which develops itself outwarday
in the fashion of his garments.
A sycamore tree in Edinburg, Law
renee County, Pa, is probably the
largest tree of any kind in the States
as 1T measures twenty-five feet in cir
conference at the trunk. Only five
feet from the ground it sends out three
huge branches.
"A child was recently Watching a E
young lady in Holliston busily talking
into telephone transmitter. Suddenly
the child said: ''Who are you talking {
tO?" The lady answered: Il am talk
ing to a man. The child replied?
''Well, he must be an awful little man
to live in such a small house rs that"
Mr.. Rose. the Waterman at the
Georgia depot in Athens. has fine
yard dog that assists him in guarding
the depot, and is very valuable. This
dog got one of hiss legs cut off by the
cars year or two ago. and Mr.. Rose is
making him leg out of wood and
leather that he thinks will answer
every purpose.
"A Brooklyn woman recently sue
ceeded in mortgaging her four hundred
dollars worth of furniture To: twenty
six different firms for sums aggregating
four thousand dollars. which she squan-
dered at the races. The husband had
the sale of the furniture stopped by an
injunction, claiming that he, and not
his wife, owned the property.
"A citizen of Arthur village, Cam
ada, fell from an unguar9ed bridge in
to the water, and was saved from
drowning by the eXertions of Mrs. .
Drake, who risked her life in the act.
She caught n severe cold and has been
an invalid ever since. The man re-
covered three thousand dollars from the
town, but not cent of it has gone to-
the woman who saved his life.
The jailer of the Pueblo County
Jail, Colorado, permitted one of the
prisoners to play the violin evenings.
The other night the scraping began at
an early hour, and was kept up con-
tinuously and vigorously until late,
when it ceased. In the morning the
iailer found that under cover of the
music four prisoners had sawed off
portion of window casing. worked a
big stone out of place, and escaped.
Golden trout are found in but one
place in the world-that is in the brooks
of Mount Whitney, up near the banks
of everlasting snow. They haYe a
golden stripe down each side and are.
the most beautiful fish that swim.
Those who saw the first specimens of
these trout that were brought down
from the head of Whitney creek thought
they were made up for show-that
stripes of gold-leaf had been glued to
their sides.
"A telegraph operator, no matter
how expert he may be, becomes in time
a sort of machine. In sitting long
hours ut his instrument listening to
the monotonous tick of his sounder he
becomes deaf to reason. and perpe-
trates bulls that in his walking senses
he knows to be wrong. Here is one
that caused considerable CONSERVATION
in a New York family. AS the opera
tor received it it read: "Unclean Gus
died to-day" 1t should have read:
"Uncle Angus died to-day. '-PhtIGdeL-
phiG Press.
"A new kind of scale consists of a
simple balance arm resting on a nickel
point, supported by a standard about
eighteen inches in height. There are
two scales in the balance arm: one de-
notes the weight and the total cost of
the article weighed, the other the unit
of price. which is designated by slid
ing weight. From this sliding weight
is suspended the scoop or slab to con-
tain the article to be weighed. BY ths
scale the total cost of an article at anF
point is given Immediately upon weigh
ing it-BOSton Budget.
"A man IN Westville, Conn.,, had
grudge against neighbor, and there
fore hunted up an old law enacted in
1850 with which to get even. The law
provides that one rescuing cattle from
a pound shall be fined. The neighbor,
poor woman, allowed her cow to feed
near the house while her son watched
her closely. The animal CHANGED to
step OIL to her neighbours ground, and
before the boy could reach her she had
been captured. The cow was on its
way to the pound, but was rescued by